IV. JASON, mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans, ch. xvi. 21. was St. Paul’s Host at Thessalonica. Jason hazarded his life to preserve him in a sedition which Acts xvii. 7.was raised against him in that City. It appears by the Epistle to the Romans, that he was related to St. Paul. Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen. The Greeks make him Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, and give him the title of Apostle. They honour his memory on the 28th or 29th of April.
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